Despite polls suggesting the Voice faces overwhelming defeat on Oct 14, campaigners believe a final-days surge in support will catty the day.

Ahead of Saturday’s referendum, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will lead a ‘Yes’ blitz across the country during the campaign’s final days.

Despite the campaign being behind in opinion polls before the national vote on October 14, Assistant Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy says she is both optimistic and humbled about the referendum’s success.

“I’m still very quietly confident that we can get this over the line,” she told Sky News on Sunday.

“I am deeply humbled by the support that we are getting on the ground.”

Senator McCarthy said regardless of the results on Saturday, the government would still aim to improve outcomes for Indigenous Australians.

‘We’re still here’

“We’ve had massive disappointments over many, many decades and many centuries,” she said.

“But we’re still here, and we’ll continue to still be here and we’ll still continue to be pursuing the best that we can for the best of our people.”

The Prime Minister, who cast an early vote in the referendum in Sydney on Saturday, said he would be touring the country in support of the ‘yes’ campaign in the referendum’s final days.

Mr Albanese appealed to voters to see through the fears projected by the ‘no’ side.

“What lifts a nation up is hope and optimism and a vision for the future moving forward,” he said.

Anthony Albanese and his son Nathan cast their votes in the voice referendum on Saturday.

But deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley said the country would still have negative outcomes either way following the referendum.

“It’s a lose-lose whatever the result is on Saturday. It will be bad, divisive and unhappy for Australians the next day, so we do need to bring the country together,” she told Sky News.

“It is just so important that the day after we we come together as a country.”

Blank cheque?

Ms Ley said she would not be happy if the ‘No’ campaign wins the referendum, despite saying she would be voting that way herself.

“We’re committed to a policy that recognises our First Australians in the Constitution and so many Australians agree with us,” she said.

“They don’t agree about Anthony Albanese’s divisive Voice inside the Constitution, but they agree with that recognition.”

Former prime minister Tony Abbott, who fronted the media alongside two federal opposition MPs on Saturday, urged voters to reject the proposal, calling the voice “a huge leap into the constitutional dark”.

The ex-Liberal leader likened the change to placing a blank cheque in the Constitution.

“Unless you are absolutely sure that this is change for the better, and unless you are absolutely sure that you are comfortable with all the possible ramifications, you should vote no,” Mr Abbott said.

PM: We’ll accept voters verdict

Anthony Albanese has labelled the upcoming referendum as the one and only chance to establish an Indigenous voice, ruling out future at attempts at setting it up should the proposal fail.

With less than a week until Australians go to the polls on whether to enshrine the voice in the constitution, the Prime Minister said he would not seek to legislate the advisory body if the ‘no’ campaign won.

Mr Albanese said the government would walk away from the voice altogether if the ‘yes’ vote did not succeed, but remained confident of success at the referendum on October 14.

-AAP